Unit 1 Food Studies, Outcome 1 revision

The main features of the earliest known hunter-gatherers include:

• a)       A lifestyle of sowing crops and domesticating animals

• b)       A nomadic lifestyle, moving from place to place in search of food

• c)      Having children spaced apart, due to issues with having to carry children along with their possessions

• D)      Both B and C are correct

Which is true about the early development of agriculture

• It was a gradual process, taking almost many hundreds of years for agricultural production to be established 

•     The more settled hunter-gather communities became known as ‘sedentary hunter-gatherers’

• The first attempts of agriculture came about because of the unpredictability and risk to the food supply of hunter-gatherers

•   All are correct

The early development of agriculture involved the cultivation of wild plants.        The term cultivate means to:

• Deliberately sow and tend to crops on land

• Gather food using baskets

• Storing food away for future use

• Increase the nutritional levels of a community

The two areas were the earliest forms of agriculture occurred include:

• Britain and Australia

• China and Japan

• Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia

• India and Europe

Domestication of plants and animals was a key feature of agricultural societies.

The term domesticate means to:

• The process of using selective breeding to make wild plants and animals more useful to humans

• Plant certain plants separate away from animals

• Grow plants on one area of land one year, then have animals on the land the following year

• Moving around from one place to another in search of plants and animals

The main reason for the development of agriculture was:

• a) Changes in climate at the  end of the ice age 

• b)   Tribes going to war over food and so people built permanent shelters where they started agriculture

• C)       Both A and B are correct

• d)       Hunter-gatherer populations started to die off

One of the main reasons for terrace farming being used by early agricultural communities was to:

• To make use of mountainous land by building terraces into the slopes of the mountain because they had a lack of flat land

• To find out more areas to grow food

• Because crops grew better by terrace farming

• Due to a lack of water

The meaning of the word ‘cuisine’ is:

• The availability of land to grow crops on

• The style of preparation and cooking that reflects the characteristics of a particular country or geographic region

• Shared or learned patters of behaviour of a group of people

• A herd of animals used to plough soil

The region known as the ‘Fertile Crescent’ includes:

• a) The river Euphrates and Tigris

• b) Turkey and Saudi Arabia

• c) Egypt, Iraq and Syria

• Both a) and c)